Harshvardhan Harshvardhan
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About Harshvardhan Harshvardhan
Principal Geophysicist
Harshvardhan is a well-rounded Geophysicist, with extensive exposure to Exploration, New Ventures and Development projects. He is a resourceful and industrious professional with 13 years of valued experience in delivering capex intensive growth energy projects in both onshore and offshore environment leading to the increase of hydrocarbon production and topline of the company.
His most recent endeavour of integrating seismic interpretation, attribute analysis, geological under-standing, reservoir engineering and well planning and execution for offshore clastic reservoirs of Cambay field, Western India, led to doubling of production to ~ 16000 BOPD. This integrated approach was published in The Leading Edge, 2019.
He has successfully carried out multiple projects, leading to an increase in the reserve and resource base of the company. He has been regularly involved in peer reviews of technical analysis and value assurance to growth projects.
Key highlights of career:
❏ Development, Interpretation and Production Geophysicist for three large onshore fields (cumulative ~2 Billion barrel) Mangala, Bhagyam and Aishwariya in India.
❏ Proficient in map generation, prospect appraisal, volumetric analysis and risk assessment
❏ 13 +years of insightful Seismic Interpretation experience in both onshore and offshore environment in development Geophysics with solid Geophysical operations experience mainly borehole seismic and seismic field acquisition.
❏ Leading the Geophysics domain for offshore assets in Cairn (Ravva in KG basin and Lakshmi and Gauri in Cambay basin). Providing valued inputs for integrated field reviews, reservoir surveillance and management plans.
❏Business partner management, application of cutting edge technology in subsurface stream, benchmarking with global partners to successfully deliver Cambay and Ravva oil and gas growth project from subsurface side. These successful execution campaigns led to doubling of field production and significant impact on business development.
❏ Stake holder management, working within tight budget allocations, integrating teams and resources for business delivery
❏ Cost benchmarking, project economics and cash flow understanding to effectively propose the upcoming projects to higher management.
❏ Supporting with data driven decision making for growth project planning and execution.
❏ Data analysis integrating seismic and well data to optimize the delivery of drilling location to growth partners.
❏ Implementing high resolution image processing using neural networks to understand and optimize reservoir characterization of offshore projects.
❏ An able integrator of cross functional inputs to streamline the project execution
❏ Effectively influence government regulatory body, JV partners and various stakeholders with active role in peer reviews, multi-disciplinary projects and technical workshops.
Experience
Company: Cairn Oil and Gas
Duration: Jan 01, 2017 to Present . 7 years 10 months
Description:
Ravva Offshore Growth Project Execution (7 Wells and Capex ~ $ 160 Mm)
• Stake holder management, synthesis of results conducive to explaining and influencing higher management for project approval.
• Technical scope of work finalization for identifying growth business partners for execu-tion of drilling pertaining to offshore wells.
• Leading the project from subsurface side in optimizing well location. Real time drilling support and utilization of latest cloud-based digitalization infrastructure to drill the wells optimally leading to increase in production from the field. The project was conceptualized and executed with favourable NPV, IRR and economics and proved value driver for Cairn and all stakeholders.
Cambay Offshore Growth Project Execution (4 Wells and Capex ~ $ 40 Mm)
• Leading the subsurface endeavours in well location optimization and timely stakeholder alignment.
• Demonstrated technical rigour and leveraged analytical support to bring the high level results to all stakeholders (JV, Business Partners and Government)
• Timely cross functional integration to deliver high value project with full adherence to Q-HSE guidelines.
Technology and Digitalization:
• Benchmarking and regularly leveraging international technology and service providers expertise to implement novel solutions for solving business critical challenges.
• Single point of contact for technology solutions and project management from offshore subsurface side for high value contracts
• Power user of dashboards and python based data analysis to forecast optimal reservoir management strategy for field development. Supporting with data driven decision making for growth project planning and FDP execution
• Implementing high resolution image processing using neural networks to understand and optimize reservoir characterization of offshore projects.
• Leading the Geophysics domain for offshore assets in Cairn (Ravva in KG basin and Lakshmi and Gauri in Cambay basin). Providing valued inputs for integrated field reviews, reservoir sur-veillance and management plans.
• Maturing and de-risking exploration portfolio for offshore assets.
• Providing valued inputs for integrated field reviews, Field development plans, reservoir surveillance and management plans.
• Effectively influence government regulatory body, JV partners and various stakeholders with active role in peer reviews, multi-disciplinary projects and technical workshops.
• Petroleum systems analysis, sequence stratigraphy, seismic interpretation, 4D seismic calibration, Geobody interpretation, AVO analysis and attribute work to support Ravva field in identifying growth prospects, bypassed oil and thereby drill ready infill proposals.
Position: Principal Geophysicist
Duration: Jan 01, 2017 to Present . 7 years 10 months
Description:
Ravva Offshore Growth Project Execution (7 Wells and Capex ~ $ 160 Mm)
• Stake holder management, synthesis of results conducive to explaining and influencing higher management for project approval.
• Technical scope of work finalization for identifying growth business partners for execu-tion of drilling pertaining to offshore wells.
• Leading the project from subsurface side in optimizing well location. Real time drilling support and utilization of latest cloud-based digitalization infrastructure to drill the wells optimally leading to increase in production from the field. The project was conceptualized and executed with favourable NPV, IRR and economics and proved value driver for Cairn and all stakeholders.
Cambay Offshore Growth Project Execution (4 Wells and Capex ~ $ 40 Mm)
• Leading the subsurface endeavours in well location optimization and timely stakeholder alignment.
• Demonstrated technical rigour and leveraged analytical support to bring the high level results to all stakeholders (JV, Business Partners and Government)
• Timely cross functional integration to deliver high value project with full adherence to Q-HSE guidelines.
Technology and Digitalization:
• Benchmarking and regularly leveraging international technology and service providers expertise to implement novel solutions for solving business critical challenges.
• Single point of contact for technology solutions and project management from offshore subsurface side for high value contracts
• Power user of dashboards and python based data analysis to forecast optimal reservoir management strategy for field development. Supporting with data driven decision making for growth project planning and FDP execution
• Implementing high resolution image processing using neural networks to understand and optimize reservoir characterization of offshore projects.
• Leading the Geophysics domain for offshore assets in Cairn (Ravva in KG basin and Lakshmi and Gauri in Cambay basin). Providing valued inputs for integrated field reviews, reservoir sur-veillance and management plans.
• Maturing and de-risking exploration portfolio for offshore assets.
• Providing valued inputs for integrated field reviews, Field development plans, reservoir surveillance and management plans.
• Effectively influence government regulatory body, JV partners and various stakeholders with active role in peer reviews, multi-disciplinary projects and technical workshops.
• Petroleum systems analysis, sequence stratigraphy, seismic interpretation, 4D seismic calibration, Geobody interpretation, AVO analysis and attribute work to support Ravva field in identifying growth prospects, bypassed oil and thereby drill ready infill proposals.
Position: GEOPHYSICIST, SENIOR & LEAD IN CAIRN
Duration: Jan 01, 2008 to Jan 01, 2017 . 9 years
Description:
• Led the integrated drilling project to deliver onshore Aishwariya infill campaign and added ~ 6MMBOE of reserves in the field and helped increase production by another 7000 BOPD.
• Led Micro-seismic planning, monitoring and interpretation of results in RDG volcanic uncon-ventional Gas field.
• Delivered Seismic Interpretation and static model building of deep Gas field in volcanic setting. Fault and fracture identification using various seismic attributes (Curvature, Edge, azimuthal ve-locities etc). The endeavor helped in increasing the GIIP to realize the true potential of the field.
• Rock Physics, AVO analysis and Inversion feasibility studies for unconventional low perm., lam-inated porcellanite reservoirs of deep lacustrine deposits for field appraisal and development of Barmer Hill reservoir.
• Shallow hazard and near field prospectivity assessment thereby saving valuable dollars for com-pany.
• Involved actively in generating 3D static reservoir models for the largest onshore oilfield in In-dia in last 25 years (Mangala~1.3 billion barrels).
• Provide real time well tie and velocity model upgradation to successfully land and geosteer 11 horizontal wells without a single side track.
Education
University: Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Degree: Integrated Bachelors and Masters
Graduation Year: 2008
Area: Geophysics
Start - End Year: 2003 - 2008
Notes:
Integrated Master of Science, 5 years programme in Exploration Geophysics, 2008, from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India.
Department Rank 2 with grade point of (8.73/10) in class of 40 students.
Jnan Ghosh Memorial award for securing highest grade point after Bachelor’s degree.
Awards & Recognitions
Award Name: Gnan Ghosh Memorial Award Year: 2007
Description:
Securing highest grade in Bachelors
Skills
Project management;
Business Development;
Well Data Management;
Formation Evaluation;
Wireline Operations;
Measurement While Drilling;
Production Optimization;
Formation correlation;
Coding;
Operation geology;
Quantitative geophysical interpretation;
Seismic interpretation;
Seismic processing QC;
4D seismic;
Portfolio Management;
Geological Mapping;
Training Courses;
Rock Physics;
Sonic;
English;
Python;
Production Enhancement;
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